So I'm only getting to do one day because a friend is paying for my ticket, but heading to CharCon this afternoon, and should be staying through the evening.

It's a long shot, but if anybody is in the Charleston, WV area, maybe I'll see you there.

This is a call I’ve gotten several times. It’s always in really bad female text-to-speech.

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...relative to the galactic core.

On the one hand, that number is too large to really comprehend.

On the other, it's such an infinitesimally small segment of the total distance that it's meaningless.

Cosmic scales are weird.

So, going into work yesterday, there was a dead chicken in the nearest parking space to the entrance. I don't mean a dropped food item, I mean a live and clucking chicken that had been turned into roadkill. And apparently a hen, since among the usual roadkill carnage there was yellow goo I can only assume was eggs.

My actions were to wonder where it came from and think to myself, “West Virginia, dial it back a little.”

And that might have been it, except the day kept going.

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Replacing the rear struts on the Camry. The big shop wants $770 for the pair.

The old man who installed a lift in his two-car garage does it for $290.

Replacing the lower ball joints on the CRV. The big shop wants $600 or so for the pair.

The old man who installed a lift in his two-car garage does it for $260.

Replacing the flex hose on the Camry. The chain muffler store wants $500 to replace the flex hose, y-joint, and catalytic converter.

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...Since the other PCaRG admins wanted to run our chat server there.

So, I'm on there as Rinnaul, and my tag is #5772, if anybody wants to use it to reach me.

Rushed through the morning, job interview blew, everyone in the house is sick to some degree, the kid is treating underwear like cloth diapers and refusing to nap, and I'm paying $1500 for car repairs which is about 80% of all my money.

And here I am trying to write comedy.

...but it finally hit you that the story you stalled out on over a month ago lost momentum because you tried making Twilight the straight man when that was already Fluttershy's role, and what the story really needed was for Twilight to get overstimulated and make everything worse, and now the first non-flashback scene of the next chapter can be funny again.

Remember, kids: if it feels like the story isn't going anywhere, make the protagonist's life harder.

No, seriously. This girl is so phone-awkward and it's fucking adorable.

Every time I call in to do a payment it's just like:

Her: "Okay, Mr. ____, that's all set up and will withdraw from your account on Monday."
Me: "Alright, thank you."
Her: "You're welcome. Uh... um... bye."

And whenever she leaves a message, she gives her contact information in a sing-song tone.

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Now that PCaRG has been reorganized to have folders for individual admins that we can open as we see fit, I'm back to my stupid meme- and clop-filled reviews, and now, they're even reviews of clop!

I mean, not always, but the latest one is.

Equestria Girls, mind control, transformations, futa, tentacles, orgies, pony-on-human, human-on-griffon, and my new cellphone background.

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